OPEN WORKSHOPS - LEVEL 01

Foundations

A fast track to confident, effective AI collaboration

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5 sessions, 75 minutes each, live online

“I realized I was only using a fraction of what ChatGPT had to offer.”

Some version of that is the most common thing we hear from participants in the You & AI workshop series.

AI has features most people never touch — projects, skills, connectors, and model selection. This series teaches you to use them, so that AI becomes an increasingly effective collaborator.

Foundation series

Each session builds a new dimension of AI capability, compounding into more effective & efficient use.

  • AI isn’t a magic typewriter, but it can be a powerful ally throughout the writing process. This session teaches strategies for collaborating effectively across the writing spectrum, from lower stakes tasks where authorial voice is less important to higher stakes ones where voice is everything.

    Homework: Write or revise something using strategies from this session.

  • Projects can turn AI into a personal operating system. Learn to layer knowledge, project instructions, and prompting to create high-leverage workflows for tasks like writing, networking, and planning (whether your week or your meals).

    Homework: Create two Projects to assist your workflows.

  • Getting AI to forget & getting AI to remember are two sides of the same coin. In this session, we discuss privacy and what you can do to ensure yours. We also introduce Instructions & Skills as ways of getting AI to remember what’s useful to you. AI becomes far more powerful when it knows your goals, adapts to your preferred work style, and produces output the way you like.

    Homework: Set up your user instructions & set up at least one skill that’s valuable to your work.

  • How AI access knowledge determines the accuracy of what it gives back. Learn to audit how AI works, to select the right model for the job, and to access additional information through connectors & Deep Research.

    Homework: Compare two models for the same task. Conduct a Deep Research task that’s valuable for your work. Set up & configure connectors.

  • Spreadsheet-based AI can quickly structure and make sense of information, both quantitative and qualitative. We’ll show examples of how you can do both. Whether you're working with surveys, financial data, or vendor agreements, you'll learn techniques to move from raw inputs to meaningful conclusions.

Logistics

Duration: 5 sessions, 75 minutes each, on Zoom

Style: These are small live seminars, capped at 12 people each

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Upcoming start dates:

Aug 21, 28, Sept 11, 18, & 25 10:00 - 11:15am ET

(Class skips Friday before Labor Day)

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  • "The course has sparked so much new energy...and that has felt so electric and fun. This honestly might be the best professional development class I've taken in 25 years and several different industries."

  • “This course will save you so much time.”

  • “I came in with essentially zero familiarity and now feel like I know the fundamentals of what AI can do and how I can play with it, test its limits, and integrate it into my life.”

  • "I realized I was using 1% of what ChatGPT has to offer."

  • "The ROI on this course was very, very, very high."

  • "This is by far the best AI learning experience I've had, full stop."

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FAQs

  • Some people start from no/low background & some start from daily professional use. This class is the right fit for people who want to master chat-based AI.

  • If you can already do all of these things fluently, you may be looking for something more advanced:

    • Use Projects as lightweight operating systems

    • Select the appropriate model for the task

    • Set up Skills

    If you have questions about fit, please feel free to contact me.

  • The easiest level up available in AI is to pay for your account, whether it’s with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot. Which AI you choose matters less than whether you’re using a free account vs a paid one.

    That said, as of mid-2026, Claude offers the most powerful set of features for most professional work. It is our recommended AI if you are choosing one.

    The Foundation series will center features that are common across the AIs. The class is designed to be AI agnostic, though we’ll primarily use Claude to demonstrate.

  • If you add your email address here, we'll notify you when we open future trainings.

  • We’ll send you a recording of the training for personal use that is good for seven days so you can catch up before the next class.

  • Unfortunately, once you're registered, we aren't able to offer refunds but can issue a credit that you can use to enroll in a future course.